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Caskets of victims of the tragedy of Guerry’s wells
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50022
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 12,5 cm x W: 17,4 cm
- Date
- 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 12,5 cm x W: 17,4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1944
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- White border with deckled edges. Outdoor scene of two men surrounded by casket laying on the ground in a field with a forest in the background. The man on the left seems like military. Some flowers have been laid on the caskets. The caskets belong to victims of the tragedy of Guerry’s wells. Narrative: The tragedy of Guerry’s wells is a jewish persecution that took place the night of the 21st and 22nd of July 1944 at Saint-Amand-Montrond (France) on a farm. 36 persons where thrown in three different wells along with some stones in order to crush them alive. Since the beginning of the war many Jewish hid there. Charles Krameisen was the only survivor. He went to the police to tell the tragedy. Robert Monheit (the donor) helped to hid Jews from Alsace-Lorraine (his hometown) to Saint-Amand-Montrond and nearby villages such as La Chartre. He gave lessons to the son of Charles Krameisen to prepare for his bar mitzvah. Regarding the wells, as he was in charge of reorganizing the post-war Jewish life in Alsace-Lorraine and had already links with Saint-Amand, he was part of the witnesses invited to attend the exhumation of the bodies of victims. His religious functions confirmed that the survivors had lost their spouses and therefore gave them permission to remarry.
- Accession No.
- 2012.31.44
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- St-Amand, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50029
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : paper : beige , black ; Ht: 14 cm x W: 20,8 cm
- Date
- September 25, 1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : paper : beige , black ; Ht: 14 cm x W: 20,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- September 25, 1946
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- French
- Notes
- One page. Official filled form with genreral informations of Robert Monheit and attestation of his discharge from Starsbourg center. On back b.l. two finger prints. Narrative: Rabbi Robert Monheit comes from Strasbourg and is born on September 24, 1920. During the war he was a chaplain and an officer in the French army. He helped Jews to hide in the region of Saint-Amand. He was part of the French resistance and did his military service from 1940 to 1944. In 1944 he was employed in a sugar factory to do mandatory work. After two months he was released from that. After the war he helped in Germany and he was part of the mobile-synagogue ambulance. He had two children in 1948 and 1949 in Strasbourg. He helped in the United States to send money to DP camps. He immigrated to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.06
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Strasbourg, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50031
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : paper : beige, black ; Ht: 27 cm x W: 21 cm
- Date
- October 01, 1949
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : paper : beige, black ; Ht: 27 cm x W: 21 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- October 01, 1949
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- One page. Official filled form certifying Robert' Monheit's membership to the French Forces of the Interior from June 6, 1944 to September 9, 1944 in the orders of Commander Dupleix in the Indre department. Narrative: Rabbi Robert Monheit comes from Strasbourg and is born on September 24, 1920. During the war he was a chaplain and an officer in the French army. He helped Jews to hide in the region of Saint-Amand. He was part of the French resistance and did his military service from 1940 to 1944. In 1944 he was employed in a sugar factory to do mandatory work. After two months he was released from that. After the war he helped in Germany and he was part of the mobile-synagogue ambulance. He had two children in 1948 and 1949 in Strasbourg. He helped in the United States to send money to DP camps. He immigrated to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.08
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Limoges, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50032
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : paper : beige, black, purple, pink ; Ht: 21,1 cm x W: 13,5 cm
- Date
- September 25, 1951
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Certificate : paper : beige, black, purple, pink ; Ht: 21,1 cm x W: 13,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- September 25, 1951
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- French
- Notes
- One page. Official document certifying Robert Monheit's residency in Strasbourg since June 9, 1945 delivered by Strasbourg Police Commisionner (?) on September 25, 1951. The document has two identical 4 francs pink postage stamp on b.l. Narrative: Rabbi Robert Monheit comes from Strasbourg and is born on September 24 1920. During the war he was a chaplain and an officer in the French army. He helped Jews to hide in the region of Saint-Amand. He was part of the French resistance and did his military service from 1940 to 1944. In 1944 he was employed in a sugar factory to do mandatory work. After two months he was released from that. After the war he helped in Germany and he was part of the mobile-synagogue ambulance. He had two children in 1948 and 1949 in Strasbourg. He helped in the United States to send money to DP camps. He immigrated to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.09
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Strasbourg, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Charles Krameisen at memorial service of the victims of the tragedy of Guerry’s wells
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50016
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17,3 cm x W: 12,7 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17,3 cm x W: 12,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- White border with deckled edges. Outdoor scene in which Charles Krameisen is around a crowd of people. Two men are looking at him trying to confort him. One of them is touching his shoulder. Charles Krameisen is wearing a long woolen coat with a white shirt and a dark tie underneath. Charles Krameisen was the only survivor of the tragedy of Guerry’s wells. Narrative: The tragedy of Guerry’s wells is a jewish persecution that took place the night of the 21st and 22nd of July 1944 at Saint-Amand-Montrond (France) on a farm. 36 persons where thrown in three different wells along with some stones in order to crush them alive. Since the beginning of the war many Jewish hid there. Charles Krameisen was the only survivor. He went to the police to tell the tragedy. Robert Monheit (the donor) helped to hid Jews from Alsace-Lorraine (his hometown) to Saint-Amand-Montrond and nearby villages such as La Chartre. He gave lessons to the son of Charles Krameisen to prepare for his bar mitzvah. Regarding the wells, as he was in charge of reorganizing the post-war Jewish life in Alsace-Lorraine and had already links with Saint-Amand, he was part of the witnesses invited to attend the exhumation of the bodies of victims. His religious functions confirmed that the survivors had lost their spouses and therefore gave them permission to remarry.
- Accession No.
- 2012.31.27
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- St-Amand, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Charles Krameisen at memorial service of the victims of the tragedy of Guerry’s wells.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50017
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17,1 cm x W: 12,5 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17,1 cm x W: 12,5 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- White border with deckled edges. Outdoor scene in which Charles Krameisen issurrounded by many people at a memorial service. On both side of him two children , a boy and a girl. Everyone is wearing a hat and sober clothing. Charles Krameisen was the only survivor of the tragedy of Guerry’s wells. Narrative: The tragedy of Guerry’s wells is a jewish persecution that took place the night of the 21st and 22nd of July 1944 at Saint-Amand-Montrond (France) on a farm. 36 persons where thrown in three different wells along with some stones in order to crush them alive. Since the beginning of the war many Jewish hid there. Charles Krameisen was the only survivor. He went to the police to tell the tragedy. Robert Monheit (the donor) helped to hid Jews from Alsace-Lorraine (his hometown) to Saint-Amand-Montrond and nearby villages such as La Chartre. He gave lessons to the son of Charles Krameisen to prepare for his bar mitzvah. Regarding the wells, as he was in charge of reorganizing the post-war Jewish life in Alsace-Lorraine and had already links with Saint-Amand, he was part of the witnesses invited to attend the exhumation of the bodies of victims. His religious functions confirmed that the survivors had lost their spouses and therefore gave them permission to remarry.
- Accession No.
- 2012.31.28
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- St-Amand, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Civilians visit crematorium installations
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50043
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 16,9 cm x W: 22,7 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 16,9 cm x W: 22,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- One black border on bottom of photograph. Indoor scene in which many people are looking at the crematory ovens. A soldier is guarding the place.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.37
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Buchenwald, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Elie Wiesel and newly liberated prisoners in their barrack
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50045
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17 cm x W: 22,7 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17 cm x W: 22,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- No border. Indoor scene in which many men are lying down in a wooden bed structure. On the right, on man is standing, naked, with his prisonner clothes hidding a part of his body.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.43
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Buchenwald, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Former camp official wearing shackles is being watched by former prisoner
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50041
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 22,7 cm x W: 17 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 22,7 cm x W: 17 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- No border. Outdoor scene in which one man is sitting on a barel and his legs are enchained. Another man, a soldier, is standing up next to him, guarding him. In the background, wooden walls.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.33
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Belsen, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Former internee shows soldiers functioning of gallows
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50049
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 22,7 cm x W: 17 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 22,7 cm x W: 17 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- White bottom border. Outdoor scene in which soldiers are looking at a man that is explaining what is the structure in front of him, the gibbet. In the background there is some buildings roof.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.51
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Ohrdurf, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Former prisoner crying
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50046
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 22,7 cm x W: 17,1 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 22,7 cm x W: 17,1 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- White bottom border. Outdoor scene in which a man is sitting on the ground crying. He seems to be preparing food.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.44
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Nordhausen, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Former prisoners carry another newly liberated prisoner
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50038
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 22,7 cm x W: 17 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 22,7 cm x W: 17 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- White bottom border. Outdoor scene in which two prisonners are supporting another one that is not able to walk. In the background, some small buildings and a wooden whellbarrow on the left.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.28
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Vaihingen, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Former prisoners stand behind barbed wires
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50051
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17 cm x W: 22,7 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17 cm x W: 22,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- No border. Outdoor scene in which we see three men, on the left side of photograph, looking through a barbed wire fence. On the other side of the fence, at a certain distance, two men are standing. In the background there are many trees.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.58
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Vaihingen, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
General Audibert and a group of newly liberated prisoners
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50036
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17 cm x W: 22,7 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 17 cm x W: 22,7 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- French
- Notes
- No border. Outdoor scene in which a dozen of deported are walking. They are wearing the vertically striped prisoner clothes. In the background their is one building.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.24
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Buchenwald, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Group of men 1945
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn49991
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 10,6 cm x W: 7,4 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 10,6 cm x W: 7,4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- White border. Outdoor scene. Group of men, mostly soldiers, walking towards pavement. Behind them is a a fence, a country road, a hill and some trees.
- Accession No.
- 2012.31.01
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Identification card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50024
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : cardboard : beige , black, blue ; Ht: 13,5 cm x W: 20,9 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : cardboard : beige , black, blue ; Ht: 13,5 cm x W: 20,9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- French
- Notes
- Double-panel booklet attesting Robert Monheit's entry in the French Forces of the Interior as a military chaplain of the 12th area of Haute-Vienne County. On front panel b.r.a black ink signature over the two stamps. Inside the booklet, on left panel reads the date of Robert Monheit's entry in the resistance on February 1943. Narrative: Rabbi Robert Monheit comes from Strasbourg and is born on September 24, 1920. During the war he was a chaplain and an officer in the French army. He helped Jews to hide in the region of Saint-Amand. He was part of the French resistance and did his military service from 1940 to 1944. In 1944 he was employed in a sugar factory to do mandatory work. After two months he was released from that. After the war he helped in Germany and he was part of the mobile-synagogue ambulance. He had two children in 1948 and 1949 in Strasbourg. He helped in the United States to send money to DP camps. He immigrated to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.01
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Identification card
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50025
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : cardboard : beige, black, blue ; Ht: 13,6 cm x W: 21 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Identification card : cardboard : beige, black, blue ; Ht: 13,6 cm x W: 21 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- French
- Notes
- Double-panel divided obligatory service card of chaplain Robert Monheit on which their is five circular ink stamps. The first one is on the front panel t.r and the three others can be found inside the booklet on the right panel. Three out of five reads Mairie de la Chartre (Indre). Inside the booklet different assignments of Robert Monheit. Narrative: Compulsory Work Service in France came from a law issued on February 16, 1943. Rabbi Robert Monheit comes from Strasbourg and is born on September 24, 1920. During the war he was a chaplain and an officer in the French army. He helped Jews to hide in the region of Saint-Amand. He was part of the French resistance and did his military service from 1940 to 1944. In 1944 he was employed in a sugar factory to do mandatory work. After two months he was released from that. After the war he helped in Germany and he was part of the mobile-synagogue ambulance. He had two children in 1948 and 1949 in Strasbourg. He helped in the United States to send money to DP camps. He immigrated to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.02
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- la Châtre, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Letter
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50023
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : paper : beige , black ; Ht: 27 cm x W: 20,8 cm
- Date
- October 09, 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Letter : paper : beige , black ; Ht: 27 cm x W: 20,8 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- October 09, 1945
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- French
- Notes
- One page. Rectangular official letter from the Central Consistory of the "Union des Associations culturelles Israélites de France et d'Algérie". There is a header on top of letter. On bottom of letter is a circular ink stamp of that reads " Patrie / Religion". They are giving Robert Monheit (the donor) the task of taking care of the organisation of the chaplaincy of the deportees in the French occupation zone in Germany. They ask the civils autorities to welcome him and help him if possible. Narrative: Rabbi Robert Monheit comes from Strasbourg and is born on September 24 1920. During the war he was a chaplain and an officer in the French army. He helped Jews to hide in the region of Saint-Amand. He was part of the French resistance and did his military service from 1940 to 1944. In 1944 he was employed in a sugar factory to do mandatory work. After two months he was released from that. After the war he helped in Germany and he was part of the mobile-synagogue ambulance. He had two children in 1948 and 1949 in Strasbourg. He helped in the United States to send money to DP camps. He immigrated to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.31.45
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Man getting out of one of the Guerry’s wells
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50018
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 12,2 cm x W: 17,4 cm
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : paper : b&w ; Ht: 12,2 cm x W: 17,4 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Notes
- White border with deckled edges. Outdoor scene of a man with a gas mask and attached to a rope getting out of a well. In the background a wall with a vine. Two men, one on both sides of the well are pulling him out by turning the well's mechanism. This photograph testifies of the tragedy of Guerry’s wells. Narrative: The tragedy of Guerry’s wells is a jewish persecution that took place the night of the 21st and 22nd of July 1944 at Saint-Amand-Montrond (France) on a farm. 36 persons where thrown in three different wells along with some stones in order to crush them alive. Since the beginning of the war many Jewish hid there. Charles Krameisen was the only survivor. He went to the police to tell the tragedy. Robert Monheit (the donor) helped to hid Jews from Alsace-Lorraine (his hometown) to Saint-Amand-Montrond and nearby villages such as La Chartre. He gave lessons to the son of Charles Krameisen to prepare for his bar mitzvah. Regarding the wells, as he was in charge of reorganizing the post-war Jewish life in Alsace-Lorraine and had already links with Saint-Amand, he was part of the witnesses invited to attend the exhumation of the bodies of victims. His religious functions confirmed that the survivors had lost their spouses and therefore gave them permission to remarry.
- Accession No.
- 2012.31.33
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- St-Amand, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Military certificate
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn50027
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Military certificate : paper : beige, black , purple ; Ht: 27,1 cm x W: 21,9 cm
- Date
- March 12, 1945
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- textual record
- Physical Description
- Military certificate : paper : beige, black , purple ; Ht: 27,1 cm x W: 21,9 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- March 12, 1945
- Physical Condition
- Poor
- Language
- French
- Notes
- One page. Official paper certifying that Robert Monheit is under Rabbi Henri Schilli orders to take care as a Chaplain of the prisons, hospitals etc. in the region of Toulouse. Narrative: Rabbi Henri Schilli was a chaplain and clandestine Rabbi in Montpellier and Valance during the war. He is knowed for his community help. Rabbi Robert Monheit comes from Strasbourg and is born on September 24, 1920. During the war he was a chaplain and an officer in the French army. He helped Jews to hide in the region of Saint-Amand. He was part of the French resistance and did his military service from 1940 to 1944. In 1944 he was employed in a sugar factory to do mandatory work. After two months he was released from that. After the war he helped in Germany and he was part of the mobile-synagogue ambulance. He had two children in 1948 and 1949 in Strasbourg. He helped in the United States to send money to DP camps. He immigrated to Canada in 1951.
- Accession No.
- 2012.33.04
- Name Access
- Monheit, Robert
- Places
- Valence, France, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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